Re: Adding Graphics to Buttons
Re: Adding Graphics to Buttons
- Subject: Re: Adding Graphics to Buttons
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 00:35:19 -0600
On 31 Jan 2004, at 11:08 PM, Tom Gray wrote:
I would like to add a simple graphic arrow pointing to the left or to
the right to a button. Can anyone point me at some sample code of
using a graphic with a button.
If it suffices to just show an arrow, have you considered setting the
title of the button to a Unicode arrow character? Use the
Jaguar-or-later Character Palette in its Unicode Table mode to look up
the character code, and either use the palette to set the title
directly in Interface Builder, or programatically with something like
unichar leftArrow = 0x2190;
[theButton setTitle: [NSString stringWithCharacters: &leftArrow
length: 1]];
Also useful for these purposes are the left-, right-, up-, and
down-facing triangles to be found around the 25B0's. The arrows are a
bit too spindly to use in buttons, for my eye.
Otherwise, you have to produce an image of an arrow, of the desired
size, with your favorite graphics program, and include the image file
in the resources of your application (add it to the Resources group in
Xcode or Project Builder). Then tell IB to display the image in the
button. (Or, programatically, load the file into an NSImage and use
NSButton's setImage: and setImagePosition:.)
-- F
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